Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs XYZAILab_XYZ-Aquila-mini-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 September 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights

Params

8.8 B

Context

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30d

4.8 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

bartowski · B · Open weights

Params

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Context

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30d

823 K

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct	XYZAILab_XYZ-Aquila-mini-GGUF
Deployment	Open weights · also via API	Open weights
Parameters	8.8 B	—
Architecture	Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration	—
Context length	262,144	—
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0
Commercial use	Allowed	Allowed
Languages	—	—
Downloads 30d	4,785,534	822,925
Downloads all time	75.1 M	1.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	GGUF
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2025-10-11	2026-07-28
API input price / 1M tokens	$0.25	not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens	$0.75	not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens	$1.00	not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens	$0.12	not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index	7.3	not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index	—	not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index	—	not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens	235,929	not on OpenRouter
API providers	1	not on OpenRouter
Tool calling	Yes	not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode	No	not on OpenRouter

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct $1.00

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

20.2 M823 K

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct XYZAILab_XYZ-Aquila-mini-GGUF

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB

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